Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 38
You are already swine in everything but the human form, which you disgrace, and which I myself should be ashamed to keep a moment longer, were you to share it with me.
Who acts: You, swine · What happens: be, disgrace, keep, share · To what, where: swine, everything, human form, form
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, swine), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 swine | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 swine | cop |
| 3 | already | already | ADV | _ | 4 swine | advmod |
| 4 | swine | swine | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 everything | case |
| 6 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 4 swine | nmod |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 form | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 form | det |
| 9 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 form | amod |
| 10 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 everything | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 disgrace | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 disgrace | obj |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 disgrace | nsubj |
| 14 | disgrace | disgrace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 form | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 ashamed | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 ashamed | cc |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 ashamed | nsubj |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 ashamed | nsubj |
| 19 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 18 I | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 ashamed | aux |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 ashamed | cop |
| 22 | ashamed | ashamed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 swine | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 keep | mark |
| 24 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 ashamed | xcomp |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 moment | det |
| 26 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 keep | obj |
| 27 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 24 keep | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 swine | punct |
| 29 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 swine | acl |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 were | nsubj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 share | mark |
| 32 | share | share | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 were | advcl |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 share | obj |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 me | case |
| 35 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 share | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 swine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | You | swine | everything | tree rules | |||
| 2 | disgrace | present | you | the human form | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus which=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | is | should | swine | ashamed property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | keep | to-infinitive | swine not said here | moment | long property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | be | past | you | swine not said here | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot swine=Theme | ||||
| 6 | share | to-infinitive | you not said here | form | with me | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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